title: [Lafora disease complicating myoclonus epilepsy. Report of 3 cases].
abstract: We studied four patients affected by progressive myoclonic epilepsy: three patients had the clinical features of Lafora's disease while the fourth was affected by a Lundborg's type of myoclonic epilepsy. In all above cases we found no specific electroencephalographic records of Lafora's disease; muscle histochemistry was useful for the diagnosis and the demonstration of PAS positive and NADH-TR positive Lafora's bodies. The Authors discuss the nosographic situation of Lafora's body disease among the progressive myoclonic epilepsies.
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004831:Epilepsies, Myoclonic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009132:Muscles / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D009246:NADH Tetrazolium Reductase / Q000378:metabolism; D010503:Periodic Acid-Schiff Reaction
chemical_list: D009246:NADH Tetrazolium Reductase
vernacular_title: La malattia di lafora nell'ambito delle mioclono-epilessie: presentazione di tre casi.